Elena Sadiku
Sadiku with Eskilstuna United in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-11-06) 6 November 1993
Place of birth Bocholt, Germany
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Team information
Current team
 Celtic (head coach)
Youth career
0000 LdB Malmö
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 LdB Malmö 13 (1)
2012–2013 Kristianstad 28 (1)
2014–2016 Eskilstuna United 16 (5)
2017 Hammarby 6 (1)
International career
2011–2012 Sweden U19 14 (2)
Managerial career
2018–2019 Beijing BG Phoenix (assistant)
2019–2021 Rosengård (assistant)
2021 Fortuna Hjørring (assistant)
2021–2022 Eskilstuna United
2023–2024 Everton U21
2024– Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Elena Sadiku (born 6 November 1993) is a Swedish football manager and former player who is the head coach of Scottish club Celtic.

Playing career

She was an Under-19 international.[2]

She started her career with LdB Malmö,[3] before moving to Kristianstad and Eskilstuna United.

Sadiku suffered a knee injury in July 2014. She scored a hat-trick in her comeback game a year later, only to suffer another serious knee injury a few days later. She was unable to play in 2016 and after suffering from depression, left Eskilstuna at the end of the season.[4] Shortly afterwards, newly-promoted Hammarby announced that they had signed Sadiku and were hoping she could overcome her injuries and recapture her best form.[5] She played 6 games for Hammarby in 2017, scoring once, before retiring due to recurring problems with injuries.[6]

Coaching career

In February 2018 Sadiku accepted a coaching role with Chinese Super League club Beijing BG Phoenix.[7]

She later managed Eskilstuna United.[8][9]

In January 2024 she became Head Coach of Scottish club Celtic, the first woman to hold that role.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Elena Sadiku at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com.
  3. ↑ LdB FC Malmö-spelarnas bästa tips Expressen
  4. ↑ Redebo, Susanne (30 November 2016). "Elena Sadiku om sin tuffa tid: "Hemskaste jag varit med om"" (in Swedish). Ekuriren. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Liljedahl, Carl-Johan (9 December 2016). "Sadiku till Hammarby" (in Swedish). Kristianstadbladet. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Norberg, Simon (7 February 2018). "Tidigare Hammarbyspelaren flyttar till Kina" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Tidigare Hammarbyspelaren flyttar till Kina" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Sadiku kampione e Suedise Gazeta Express
  9. ↑ "Elena Sadiku återvänder till Eskilstuna som tränare". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 4 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Sadiku becomes Celtic's first female head coach" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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